ISIS’ Favorite App
January 10, 2016
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Forget Twitter, ISIS and other al-Qaeda offshoots are flocking to Telegram.
The popular messaging app has become an ISIS favorite for its encryption and sharing capabilities.
Writing for Voice of America, Jamie Dettmer explained:
Telegram’s Channels Service, which was launched last September, allows messages to be transmitted to an unlimited number of subscribers and for users to break off into highly encrypted private and group chats. In the last few weeks IS militants and other jihadis have resorted again — but in even larger numbers — to the Telegram app to recruit, spread propaganda and, intelligence officials fear, possibly organize and plot attacks in chats that are invisible and can’t be monitored or decoded.